SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 8!

WATERSHED FESTIVAL OF LIFE!
INSPIRING RESTORATION FOR RIVERS, LAND AND PEOPLE

The Watershed Festival of Life is being hosted by the
Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula on Carmel Valley Road approximately 1.5 miles east of Highway One

Event Hours: 10:30 am-4:30pm

Featured Speaker: Stephanie Mills

Especially for the RisingLeaf Watershed Festival of Life
Mills has offered these quotes from her book, In Service of the Wild:

" We have come to a moment in time when a wounded but willing humanity may look to healing itself in the land. In the individual, as well as in the ecological community, restoration begins with recapitulating the history in order to heal the land in the light of truth. Whatever sort of self we bring to the meeting with the wounded land, we may gain heart as we witness the Earth's response to care. The process is not solely in our hands: We have a part to play, but the power to restore belongs to Nature. We can only be abettors, not inventors in this endeavor; ours defer to the greater art. Ecosystems are the greatest teachers. If we can approach a particular place humbly, attentively, openly, and with hopeful anticipation, if we earnestly try to discern what the place has wanted to be , what ecological community has given rise to; if we try to be of real service to that place, we will see healing, and we will know love again."

and...

"Restoration is what lies before us, but the restoration must be of the whole system, that the whole ecosystem includes the human self, the personal heart."

"STEPHANIE MILLS is an author and ecologist who for more than twenty-five years has been writing and speaking about the tragic devastation of the natural world, and the hope for the restoration of our bioregions. Her articles and book reviews have appeard in Whole Earth Review, Utne Reader, E magazine, Raise the Stakes, and numerous anthologies. Mills is the author of Whatever Happened to Ecology? and In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land. She is the editor of In Praise of Nature and Turning Away from Technology: A New Vision for the 21st Century. Stephanie Mills lives on the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan." (from notes from the Orion Forgotten Language Tour)

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